Cassandria Blackmore Sculptural Philosophy

Biography:
Cassandria Blackmore has been working with glass mosaic for fourteen years and is acclaimed for her unconventional approach to the medium. She has taken mosaics as a classical medium and evolved it to depict modern imagery. Cassandria Blackmore was born in San Diego, California. She studied at Lewis & Clark College, Independent studies in Yorkshire, England and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Pacific Northwest College of Art. She has been commissioned for public art and her work is collected internationally. Her exhibition schedule for 2006 includes shows in Chicago, St. Louis, Miami, Palm Beach, Seattle, Scottsdale and New York City. Cassandria maintains a storefront showroom in Seattle’s Capitol Hill district.

Abstract Bio:
Glass Mosaics have always been fascinating to me, in part, because of their archival quality. They have withstood the test of time throughout art history allowing the viewer to see an ancient work of art in the same condition and color space as when the artist created it. Each piece of glass is integrated into the composition. Images become puzzles. They are visual and tactile diaries written in a sort of Braille telling the tale of how they were created. My work is reverse painted in washes of color echoing natural elements such as water, distant landscapes and microscopic biology.

Technical Info:
My work is created by reverse painting on glass and then breaking the glass into thousands of shards. The piece is then reassembled like a puzzle. The paintings expand in size to leave room for the grout. Some of the glass is fused together in order to use the optics of tinted glass. The surface of the work shimmers as light refracts off all the pieces sometimes creating prisms.

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